VFA-143 Pukin Dogs and VMFA-112 Hornets

3/25/2017 kAFW Ft worth Alliance Airport, TX

A typical Spring Sat whereby Ft worth Alliance Airport ( AFW ) gets her typical weekend traffic. We saw quite a bit of Navy transient traffic came by AFW on Friday with at least 8 F-18E/F mixed from VFA-41 Black Aces and VFA143 Pukin Dogs. VFA-143 is based at NAS Oceana, VA . This morning we were fortunate to have a VFA-143 Pukin Dogs F-18E still on the tarmac. Also we see 3x F-18A++ from VMFA112 “Cowboys” including the colorbird.

: VFA-143 PUkin Dogs

: VMFA-112 Cowboys

Right at about 1000hrs, we start to see some actions on the tarmac. Canopy was up on the “Dogs” Superhornet F-18E…We got the entire engine up sequence followed by a take off from runway 34R. This Aircraft was piloted by LCDR Kyle Jones radio callsign “Taproom.”